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Build a Backyard Chicken Coop With These Steps : plans for chicken coop

If you’re looking to build a backyard chicken coop, it’s important that you follow some steps that will get you from A to B without spending too much money. It’s perfectly possible to build a cheaper chicken coop if you understand what you’re doing, but if you don’t, you may end up with a coop that’s not functioning properly, so you’re really not that much better off.

Here are the main steps to know about building a backyard chicken coop properly.

Look At Plans Before You Build

It’s going to be vital that you’re looking at a good chicken coop… Continue reading

Basic Steps for Building a Chicken Coop

The good thing about building a chicken coop is that it is easy and relatively inexpensive to build. For a basic coop, what you will need is chicken wire, lumber, basic hand tools, wood screws, and a few other miscellaneous items. Raising chickens is an economical and ingenious way to provide for your family, you can have fresh eggs daily and meat from the chickens year round. Building a chicken coop with chicken wire is an easy task that can be completed in one day. Then you will have a place for you chickens that you can they can be… Continue reading

Amish Chicken Coops – 4 Easy Steps to Get the Job Done Right!

Amish Chicken Coops are the sturdiest coops in use today, due to the Amish style of construction. With the right plan, this type of construction is very straightforward. Let’s find out about 4 easy steps to make sure the job gets done right!

1. Decide the size of your coop and how many will you build

The size of the coops depends primarily on the number of chickens you plan to raise. If you are interested in portability, a smaller size coop would be better. If you start small and increase your flock, you can expand by building duplicates of… Continue reading

3 Easy Steps For How To Clean A Chicken Coop : poultry coops

All across the land people are building chicken coops and raising chickens in their backyards. Whether it is as a hobby, for fresh eggs or its being set up as a business to sell those eggs and poultry meat. One thing everyone agrees on, we all need to know how to clean a chicken coop.

Your chickens will stay healthier longer living in well maintained environment. A clean hen house not only makes your chickens happy, but you will feel better for having cleaned it.

Like all kept animals—your flock will be counting on you to remove the dirt and… Continue reading

Essential Steps Before Making Portable Chicken Coops

Portable chicken coops, sometimes called chicken tractors, are lightweight hen houses that can be moved easily around the garden.  They have some really good points:


Very cheap and easy to make
Easy to keep clean
Ideal if you don’t have much space in your yard
Free fertilizing for your garden (the hens do it bit by bit for you as you move the chicken tractor around)
Constantly changing stock of insects and greens for the hens
Easy to move hens into the shade (hot weather) or shelter such as a garage (cold weather)
Unsettling and confusing for… Continue reading

Breeding Chickens For Sale – 4 Critical Steps To Follow In Order To Gain Profits

Breeding chickens for sale is increasingly becoming a popular business venture these days. The need to supply the market with live fowls has been the reason for the sudden increase in the number of people engaging in poultry farming. Aside from the eggs and meat, live chickens are now being produced to gain more profits, as well as to support the poultry industry.

If you are currently raising chickens as a hobby, you should now consider turning your produce into profit. You should start breeding chickens for sale. There is even a better chance for you in the business if… Continue reading

Make a Chicken House – Using the Right Steps to Guarantee Success : chicken house

If you want to make a chicken house, it will be extremely important that you’re following the right steps throughout the process. Many chicken farmers make the critical error of not having a chicken coop building plan to follow, which costs them money, time, and a whole lot of frustration.

The main thing you must keep in mind about the process to make a chicken house is that if there are certain things you don’t consider before hand, it could really have a large influence on how well your chickens lay eggs in the future.

Since I’m guessing you want… Continue reading